A member of this band committed a sexual assault in 1997, which we were aware of at the time. Before releasing the Swallowing Shit album three years later, we failed to contact the survivor to hear what impact our releasing the album would have on her, and what her wishes were in this regard. When she became aware of the album’s pending release, she came to us and requested a public apology for this failure. We deferred, delayed, and ultimately ignored her, instead attaching an entirely inadequate (and frankly embarrassing) disclaimer to the release on this website.

These events have recently resurfaced, and we have been compelled to reexamine our thoughts and actions from the time. We clearly failed to consider – and then ignored when confronted with – the wishes of a survivor of sexual assault, instead privileging the interests of the other members of the band(s) and our own interests documenting their contributions to the Winnipeg music scene. This is certainly inconsistent with the politics we hold today.

Survivors of sexual assault need to have their voices heard and their wishes taken seriously. We sincerely apologize for failing miserably in this regard.

Description

Rising from the literal and aesthetic ashes of SWALLOWING SHIT, Winnipeg's HEAD HITS CONCRETE pummeled and bashed and weirded and jarred their way through 5 years of existence before choking on their own vomit in 2004. We now present their entire recorded output of this all-out insanity in one digital album.

This thing rules. If the medium is the message, then the message here is "Dear occupant, there is a bulldozer full of screaming, maladjusted bangers being dropped from 13,000 feet from the cargo hold of a C-130 Hercules onto your location in T minus 3 seconds. The bulldozer is also on fire".

As if that weren't enough, vocalist "Soiled Depends" was kind enough to provide us with a swear breakdown of the release. We offer here for your perusal:

This aural bloodbath features the band's complete studio output along with material from splits with My Minds Mine and Bodies Lay Broken; live tracks; cover songs of Crossed Out and Heresy; as well as some new, previously-unreleased live material; and the impossible to find "Tour" EP.